Thursday, May 17, 2007

Better than Captain Underpants

My 7-year-old is just becoming interested in books and of course I want to encourage him, but lately he's been reading the truly awful Captain Underpants series on bathroom-humor. The books are clearly aimed at kids (mostly boys) who otherwise wouldn't bother reading, probably on the theory that reading something is better than nothing. But they're full of deliberate misspellings ("Skool", "teechur") and lurid descriptions of pranks played on incompetent teachers and school officials. Do I really want my kids exposed to what is basically Beevus and Butthead for grade schoolers?

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Years building software and marketing teams at Apple, Microsoft, and startups in the US, Japan, and China have given me an awareness of how little I know, but at least I try to write it down before I forget.